Tongue for shoes.



D. Y. HALLOCK.

TONGUE FOB SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.23.1914.

Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

DANIEL Y. HALLocK; or YORK, P NNSYLVANIA.

TONGUE FOR SHOES.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, i915.

. Application filed December 23, 1914. Serial No. 878,774.

' retain its shape.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conventional shoe and its tongue with the.

improvement applied, the lacing portion of the shoe being shown loosened to illustrate the position and construction of the tongue; Fig; 2 is an enlarged view of the upper portion of the tongue viewed from the front with the improvementapplied; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 viewed from the inner face of the tongue; Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of the supporting plate; Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating a modification in the construction of the supporting plate; Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view of the plate employed in the modification shown in Fig. 5. 7

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The improvement consists in attaching a supporting member, preferably of metal, to the tongue near its upper end to prevent the tongue from buckling or becoming distorted when in use, and is applied transversely of the tongue and preferably against its inner face. The plate is represented conventionally at 10, and may be fastened in any suitventionally at 11, and preferably near its upper or larger end.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the member 10 is shown attached to the tongue 11 by hollow rivets 12 of the usual construction, the rivets being passed through the material of the tongue and through apertures in the plate 10. The member 10 is curved to conform to the adjacent portion of the ankle or instep of the foot of the--wearer, so that the tongue is caused to closely bear against the foot, but without producing any abrasion or unequal pressure.

In Fig. 5, a modified form 'of fastening means is shown, consisting in forming the plate 10 With spaced clefts in its ends whereby tongues 13 are produced which are adapted to be passed through small slits in the material of the tongue and clenched against the opposite side, as shown. Any suitable means may be employed for fastening the plate 10 in position, and it is not desired, therefore, to limit the invention in any manner in this respect.

By this simplemeans, the tongue is maintained in straight or unwrinkled position at all times, and does not, therefore, annoy the wearer or become uncomfortable by reason of its wrinkling. i

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a tongue for a shoe having a rigid supporting member-curved to conform to the ankle of the wearer and extending transversely ofthe tongue at the upper end.

.2. As a new article of manufacture, a

tongue for a shoe having a rigid supporting member curved to conform to the foot of I the wearer of the shoeand attached to the tongue transversely thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my. signature in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL Y. HALLOOK. [L.s.]' Witnessesz.

H. WV. EISENHART, R. F. MORNINGSTAR. 

